Grid Activities in Singapore

1. Grid Activities in Singapore 20 February 2006

2. National Grid Vision to facilitate the seamless use of an integrated cyber infrastructure in a secure, effective & efficient manner to advance scientific, engineering & biomedical R&D, with the longer term goal of transforming the Singapore economy using grid

3. Working Groups Security Middleware & Architecture Governance & Policy Network Physical Sciences Life Sciences Digital Media Manufacturing SIGs System Administrators Access Grid … PC Grid Computing Virtual Grid Communities National Grid Steering CommitteeChairman MTI (A*STAR, EDB, SPRING, RIs) MINDEF(DSTA, DSO) MICA (IDA, MDA) MOH (Hospitals) MOE(Schools, NUS, NTU) Industry(Lilly, CPG. ITSC, SITF, …) National Grid Governance Council (NGGC) Facilitates & coordinates activities National Grid Office (NGO) National Grid Operations Centre(NGOC) National Grid Competency Centre(NGCC)

4. National Grid Pilot Platform – Phase 1 • Objectives: • Build grid computing awareness • Foster collaboration • Interconnect maincompute resources • Scope: • Establish 1GE backbone • Establish rudimentary infrastructure for R&D in universities/research centres • Testbed distributed applications

5. Activities • Formulate the framework & policies • Plan & develop a secure platform • Adopt common open standards • Encourage the adoption of Grid Computing • Demonstrate the commercial viability of compute-resource-on-tap • Lay the foundation for a vibrant Grid Computing economy

6. Organized by : Distributed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) Simulation Collaborative Engineering Design & Simulation Complex Design & Modeling Physical Sciences Activities Temasek Labs Distributed Simulation of Flow over Dimpled Surfaces Skewed Satellite Image Geo-rectified Satellite Image Geo-rectification of Satellite Images Diagnostics & Repair Scheduling

7. Organised by E-Cell & Gene Simulation Encyclopedia of Life Life Sciences Activities • Rationalizing Life Sciences database download, mirroring & maintenance • Hosting of locally generated databases (ala NCBI) • Future Enhancements • Allow queries across main databases • Support integration of Singapore data • Expand audience to include medical professionals GridBlast

9. Joint Organizers with Sponsored by PC Grid Computing • Stages • 1: Ideas Competition • 2: Selection • 3: Development • 4: Resource Donation • 3 categories • Schools • Institutes of Higher Learning • Open

10. PC Grid Computing • DSTA’s funding for • Vacation Camp 2005 • 6 & 7 December 2005 • Grid-enabling of 2 new applications • 200 United Devices client licenses for schools • In discussion • IDA funding for ICT Clubs in Schools Jointly organized by Supported by

11. AeroGenome – Crunching on a PC Grid • Aim: To study bacterial micro-organisms in the air in Singapore. • Motivation: Air plays significant role in public & environmental health • Initial dataset of 20,000 DNA sequences were matched against database of 3 million known sequences. Single run on isolated compute resources took an entire month. • Same process took less than 2 days on TCG@NUS • Future: Scale up study using larger datasets. Courtesy of Dr.Patrick Tan, GIS

12. Collaborative Engineering • Co-funded collaboration partnership • IDA, NUS, Sun Microsystems, APSTC, SES Systems Pte Ltd • Industry partners • Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing, IMAO, ABB Lummus Global, JGC • Benefits • Help industry to gain early competitive advantage through exploiting engineering collaboration & problem solving capabilities • Collaborative Construction Management Initiative • Integrated Production Scheduler for Constraints Management • Process Parameter Interface Model for Design Management • Integrated 4-D Product Process Model for Constructability Analysis • Will use P2P for industrial environments • Distributed Collaborative Design & Manufacturing Initiative • Will provision an Engineering Grid for simulation-based design • Collaborative Engineering Test Bed for Product Realization Initiative

13. Biological Integrated Manufacturing & Services System • Partners • SIMTech, MC3, NTU, NUS, NovusGene, progeniq, Sun Microsystems, Attogenix, KooPrime • Objective • An integrated platform that allows interoperability between Grid Computing & Bioinstrumentation • Platform • That interfaces with bio-databases, bio-informatic tools & manufacturing systems • Integrates • KOOPlatform, Goal Net, Taverna, Aris & Protégé to facilitate interoperability • Provides • A complete pipeline for diagnostic kits design • Enables • Robust automation, data acquisition & analysis of bio-instruments • Faster & more cost-efficient techniques for drug development & bio-research • Reduces • Supply chain costs with integrated resource inventory & logistics planning & scheduling

14. A*STAR-NGO Call: 2005 Awards

15. WP6 Grid Economics & Business Models(SMU, HP) Portal/Media Workbench WP1 (NTU, SIMTech, HP) Grid Enabled Applications WP2 (NTU, Temasek Poly, HP) Cel Animation PovRay Information and Job Management WP3 (IHPC, NTU, NUS, HP) Grid Middleware (Globus) WP4 Infrastructure … WP5 GOG NGPP Adaptive Enterprise @ Singapore • AE@SG R&D projects • Focus on digital media • Global Operation Grid (GOG) • Participation in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computational Grid (LCG) • User Council (comprising industry participants) to provide requirements & validate work

16. In collaboration with HP Tiramisu Program Global Operational Grid (GOG) • Implement baseline grid HPC resources • Build partnerships • Industry-relevant IP creation CERN LCG ANL Caltech CERN NCSA Purdue PSC SDSC ASCC SINGAPORE GOG Cluster

17. 2 TB Grid Market MC3 Sun Opteron 64 GOG Xeon + Itanium 2 Grid Resource Providers Grid Resource Brokers 72 78 MC3 Hardware (CPU, Storage, …) Providers Grid Exchange dmh Application Software Vendors Sembawang Users 150 64 mental ray JGC SES CEP Tools AE@SG 2 FEMLAB

18. Accounting Organisational level consumer-provider business relationship Metering Usage charging Ganglia Only stores & reports on information of resource status, no information of users & their jobs Hence, no metering & accounting mechanism Monitoring Collection of raw data Resource Usage … Grid Accounting System (GAS) Bill for organization A = ∑ (usage of members of organization A at resources owned by other organizations) $ = f (CPU , memory, license,…) Resource Usage [Courtesy of A/Prof. Francis Lee, NTU]

19. Digital Media Grid POC • Support for animation rendering • Software installed • POV-Ray • 150 x mental ray licenses • Objective of Trial • For serious users to experience running animation rendering jobs over the grid & understand the state of technology • Users • VHQ Post, Cubic Communications

20. Enterprise Grid for SMEs • Objectives • Create awareness in SMEs • Provide assistance & guidance to SMEs to harness Grid Computing to exploit internal compute resources • Partners • MegaMedia’s digital media hub (dmh) • TBA

21. Use of mental ray Licenses • Digital Media companies to use the facilities: • VHQ • Omens-Studio • Enterprise grid @ dmh has been enabled toutilize the licenses • Free access & no charge to commercial users & IHLs

22. Goal of Proof-of-Concept For users to harness resources on NGPP to run FEMLAB on a pay-per-use basis resulting in cost-savings for companies, encouraging R&D activities, & improving utilization of resources.

23. Test-bedding of Provisioning • Objective • To assess viability of a spill-over facility using GOG clusters • To measure speed of provisioning • To explore appropriate cost model • Outcomes • Accuracy of results is confirmed • License conditions to be re-visited

24. 1st South East Asia Grid Forum 8 Feb 2006, Singapore • Members • PurposeTo provide a forum for national level discussions on setting up grid infrastructures, deploying applications, and facilitating coordination of projects of common interest in South East Asia. Sponsored by:

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